"Jewish Gangsters, Pimps & Nogoodniks" Lower East Side Walking Tour

Jewish gangsters
played a definitive role in organized crime in the 1920s and '30s. The
Lower East Side was the breeding ground for hundreds of enterprising
Jewish criminals who decided that America was the true promised land by
taking Capitalism to it's darkest depths.

View the sites
associated with such infamous gangsters as Arnold Rothstein, "Bugsy"
Siegel and Mayer Lansky, who were involved in illegal drug dealing,
prostitution, gambling and loan sharking. They were the true innovators
of organized crime in America as we know it today.....